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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961
Number .26^
Town Hall Spotlights Ray Anthony
WREE WITH RUSK
Bhould Stop
Far - Gromyko
►
MOSCOW UP> — Andrei A. Gro-
|yko, Soviet foreign minister,
Sjiid yesterday he and Secretary
ll State Dean Rusk agreed at
their recent talks in New York
and Washington that the two big
countries should find a way to
make war impossible.
Gromyko, speaking to the Soviet
Communist party congress, of
fered a new olive branch to the
Vest by saying that his country
wuld seek to take into considera
tion the Western point of view at
the negotiating table if the West
really seeks understanding.
In a speech that in tone and
place appeared to be a major pol
icy statement, Gromyko declared
that President Kennedy and Pre
mier Khrushchev “must be presi-
lents in a period in which war be
comes impossible.”
It was GroVnyko’s first official
leclaration on the discussions in
New York and Washington and
the 6,000 delegates in the new
Kremlin congress hall applauded
him repeatedly.
; Gromyko declared, “The world
Soil Judgers
1st In Region
To Go National
Top honors in the Region IV
toils judging contest recently went
10 the A&M Soils Judging team
(or the second year in a row. In
tinning this, the Aggies earned
Ihe right to go to the national con-
lest to be held in May, probably
in Missouri. The Region IV event
►as held at Panhandle A&M Col
lege, Guymon, Okla.
Team members are: Charles
Batte of Italy, George Alston of
Temple, Dave Lovelace of Ireland,
Leo Buckmaster of Brownwood
and alternate Charles Schwertner
of Wall. Team coack is J. F. Mills,
assistant professor of Agronomy.
Batte took the second high indi
vidual scoring with 650 out of ar
possible 960 points. Alston was
fourth and Lovelace tied for fifth.
At the meeting, Wallace Menn
of Franklin was elected treasurer
of the regional soils committee. He
11 an active participant in the
A&M Agronomy Society a n d
works with the soils team.
situation still remains tense and
unstable.” And he issued a warn
ing to “West German revenge-
seekers.”
If they try to threaten the So
viet Union and its friends, he said,
West Germany would be turned
into a cemetery where “one would
probably not find even gravedig
gers to remove the debris of their
war machinery and to bury the
ashes of those who put this ma
chine into operation.”
There was no indication that
negotiations, at which Gromyko
seemed to hint, might be started
soon.
U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn
Thompson was back at his desk
in the U. S. Embassy after con
sultations in Washington, but told
reporters he was awaiting instruc
tions. It had been expected that
after his trip home he would be
able to begin sounding out the
Russians again On a basis of ne
gotiations.
Gromyko called the Vienna
meeting last May between Khrush
chev and President Kennedy one
of the “most outstanding events
of our time.”
If the “good traditions” of the
late President Franklin D. Roose
velt were revived in the White
House for development of Soviet-
American relations, he added, all
people would be pleased.
The Soviet Union, he said,
wants friendly relations with Brit
ain and France and attaches spe
cial importance to the relations
between “the two giants — the
U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.”
B. A. Head Named
C. P.A. Director
Thomas W. Leland, head of the
Division of Business Administra
tion, was elected director of the
Association of Certified Public Ac
countant Examiners at the organi
zation’s annual meeting held re
cently in Chicago.
Leland was secretary of the As
sociation during the past year. He
has served as a member of the
Commission on Standards of Edu
cation and Experience for CPAs.
The Association of CPA Exam
iners includes members and past
members of state boards of ac
countancy, which licenses CPAs to
practice.
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Anthony And Accessories
Ray Anthony and his lovely “Bookends’
Annita Ray and Diane Hall, will perform
tomorrow night at Town Hall. The top
billed net has been acclaimed in leading
night clubs across the country for its re
markable blend of musical talent an,d comic
artistry. Anthony is known as one of the
most versitile performers in the world of
show business.
Industrial
Here For
Industrial chemists from
throughout the United States and
Canada were here recently to plan
projects for the Chemical Thermo
dynamic Properties Center head
quartered on the A&M campus.
The industrial research chemists
are members of the committee of
the Manufacturing Chemists’ Assn,
that advises on research projects
of the Center.
Chief purpose of the committee,
meeting for the first time here
since moving research headquar
ters from Carnegie Tech, is to
evaluate and co-ordinate funda
mental calculations and data im
portant to universities and indus
trial companies doing basic re
search in chemistry.
Dr. Bruno J. Zwolinski of A&M,
director of the center, said the
committee offers guidance and rec
ommendations about the needs of
science and technology regarding
selected values of physical, ther
modynamic and spectral proper
ties of various inorganic and or
ganic compounds.
Research conducted at the Chem
ical Thermodynamic Properties
Center by graduate students and
post-doctoral fellows in the chem
istry department, and the data
produced here are published and
distributed by the Manufacturing
Chemists
Planning
Chemists’ Assn., Inc., headquarters
in Washington, D. C.
In the past six months, approxi
mately 6,000 sets of data—num
bering about 600,000 pages—were
distributed free to colleges, uni
versities, government laboratories
and non-profit research institutes
throughout the United States and
some 25 foreign nations in the
free world.
Advisory committee members
meeting at Texas A. and M. Col
lege include:
Dr. I. B. Johns, Monsanto Chem-
(See CHEMISTS On Page 3)
Ag Riflemen’s
Record Spoiled
By Alaskans
The A&M Rifle Team has been
defeated for the first time in two
years.
The Aggies fell in a postal
match with the University of Alas
ka, 1,944 points to 1,910 out of a
possible 2,000.
High scorer for the Aggies was
J. M. Wilkerson of DeLeon, with
387 points.
FOR GRADUATE STUDENT
Tropical Region Is Project
An A&M graduate student has
perhaps one of the most unique
research projects in the history of
the graduate school. Douglas
Kobinson has as a project a
strangely isolated biological region
in lower Mexico, near the Yucatan
Peninsula.
Known as Los Tuxtlas, the
region is in the southern part of
the Mexican State of Veracruz.
The 25-year-old Robinson, from
Waterbury, Conn., has pent sev
eral summers in the tropic wilder
ness doing research.
Robinson is a tall, rapid-talking
Wan who seems completely cap
tivated by his reptile and am
phibian studies (herpetology). He
says the Tuxtlas vicinity is of
intense biological interest because
it appears to have traveled its own
private evolutionary route. This
area is made up mountains,
marshes, forests and streams, and
it hosts a wide variety of plants
and animals. There is even a
slumbering vocano which woke up
briefly in 1793 and blew its top.
Ages ago in its geological past,
the mountains were cut off from
the mainland by floodings from
Gulf of Mexico waters. As such,
the area became a refuge for
species which have changed con
siderably in other places through
interaction and competition with
invading species.
The waters have receded, but
the almost impassable marshes
remain, still separating the region
and its mountains from interior
Mexico. It is a little world of its
own in which life has gone on
through the dim mists of time, un
influenced by neighboring species.
Robinson describes the Tuxtlas
as a distinct faunal region. And
he says this is the result of its
isolation and muggy climate. An
nual rainfall of up to 16 feet has
been recorded. It’s hot the year
around.
Many kinds of plants and things
that run, fly, crawl and slither
are found here. The young herpe
tologist said he has found 119
species of reptiles and amphibians
to date, including the boa con
strictor and the shy but deadly
fer-de-lance snake.
Of the mammals, there are about
100 species. Some of these are
many kinds of bats (including
vampires'), ant eaters, five kinds
of cats and two kinds of monkeys.
Robinson knows of 134 species
of birds. One of these is an ivory
billed woodpecker of a group now
believed to be extinct in the United
States.
Interested in bugs? Los Tuxtlas
has them. Among the more im
pressing are scorpions, centipedes,
army ants and parasol ants.
Orchids grow wild. There are
tree ferns, tree mosses, oaks,
legumes, palms, cactus and Tarzan-
type vines known as lianas.
While Robinson was poking
around Tuxtlas’ flora and fauna,
he came up with two important
finds. One is a completely new
species of frog. It is an arboreal,
or tree dweller type. Its closest
relative is Hyla Immensa, found
750 miles to the south in Costa
Rica.
His other prize is Anolis Barker!,
an aquatic lizard. Previously, this
species was known only from one
specimen collected in 1936 and now
pickled in The British Museum.
The Los Tuxtlas area has be
come a scientific counterpart of
the art colony. Biologists who go
there are on their own. They work
strictly in the interest of science
and increasing man’s knowledge of
his environment.
Activity here has attracted 51
investigators during the past two
summers. In addition to the United
States, they came from Mexico,
Australia, Bermuda, Canada and
Rhodesia.
Robinson said he heard of the
place from another biologist who
had been working there. The stu
dent first visited the region in
1959 and has spent three summers
looking for and recording Tuxtlas’
herpetological offerings. In the
beginning, he lived with a Mexican
family. Later, he and three of his
(See PROJECT On Page 3)
Six ‘Hot Peppers’
Kick-off MSC’s
Celebrity Series
The six “Hot Peppers” will be
gin the Memorial Student Center’s
Sunday Celebrity Series with a
program of Latin American music
at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Ball
room of the MSC.
The six musicians are: Jose
Maher, Juan Marciaq, Santiago
Tribaldos, Richard Novey, all of
Panama; Augusto Cruzalegui of
Lima, Peru; and Abraham Saloma-
Orozco of Mexico City. The group
features two guitars, a harmonica,
a violin, maracas and bongos and
their repertoire includes all types
of Latin American music with sev
eral popular American numbers
done in Latin flavor.
“We’re really looking forward
to a great year,” said Hugh Mag-
ers, chairman of the MSC Music
Committee, which sponsors the
Sunday Celebrity Series. With a
program every month coveiing
such fields as jazz, folk music,
American popular, and concert
music the Series will have at least
one program of interest to every
one.
The programs are about IV2
hours in length with an hour of
music followed by a period when
refreshments will be served and
the audience may direct questions
to the musicians concerning their
music.
With ^Bookends'
Tomorrow Night
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Managing Editor
Presenting one of the outstanding celebrities in the
world of showmanship and music today, Town Hall features
“Ray Anthony and his Bookends” tomorrow night in G. Rollie
White Coliseum starting at 8 p. m.
Anthony, known as the “young man with the horn,” is
one of Capital Recording’s greatest stars, with four movies
and numerous television appearances to his credit.
In his latest act, including the two “bookends,” Diane
Hall and Annita Ray, and a seven man instrumentation. The
show consists of two 45-minute reviews with swinging music
and snarking dialogue, blending comedy and artistry.
The show had its premiere at the Cloister in Hollywood,
on Jan. 20, 1960, and sincef
that time it has become a big HP
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This Weekend For
’26, ’41 Classes
at the Sahara Hotel in Las i
Vegas, and in other bookings. I
Anthony has spent a fruitful j
two decades building up a name
for himself and his hand, and host
ing two million-selling records to
his credit, including “Dragnet” and
“Peter Gunn.”
Movies featuring his band were
“Daddy Long Legs” with Fred
Astah’e and Leslie Caron, and “The
Girl Can’t Help It” with Jayne
Mansfield. In 1956, the band leader
starred on his own Ray Anthony
Show for the full winter season
on the ABC-TV network.
Yet even with success in its high
light, Anthony changed his tune in
1960, and started anew with his
“Bookends” act. In an article from
Gentleman Magazine, December,
1961, issue, Anthony explained the
reason behind his decision:
“As the band business got worse
and worse, traveling expenses rose
and there were few locations left
for a band to sit down between
one-nighters, I started to think
about breaking up the band.
“I remembered how Louis Arm
strong and Louis Prima, two great
trumpet players with tremendous
personal charm, had hit with the
small group idea after leading suc
cessful big bands.
“Once we decided on forming a
small group, I agreed on the idea
of having two girls singers to add
distinction to the group,” said
Anthony.
The article explained that the
title, “Bookends” came from An
thony’s saying, “Look at the cuff
links” when introducing the two
girls during a nightclub engage
ment. The idea of girl “cufflinks”
or “bookends” appealed to An
thony, and the title “Bookends”
has been an invaluable publicity
trademark.
The Hollywood Reporter de
scribed Anthony’s show as bas
ically the performance of a whole-
(See ANTHONY on Page 3)
Members of the Classes of 1926
and 1941 will arrive at College
Station for class reunions Friday
afternoon between 1 p.m. and 6
p.m. according to J. B. Hervey,
executive secretary of the A&M
Former Students Association.
Hervey said that the Class of
’26 would attend a dinner party at
7:30 p.m. Friday at the Briarcrest
Country Club here. They will have
a class “brunch” 10:30 a.m. Sat
urday at the Triangle Banquet
Room. Class pictures will be made
at 12:30 p.m. on the front steps
of the Memorial Student Center.
The Class of ’41, Hervey said,
will have dinner in the Triangle
Banquet Room Friday from 8-
11:30 p.m., including a program
and dancing. They will attend a
luncheon Saturday at 11 a.m. in
the MSC Ballroom and will have
class pictures made there at 12:15
p.m.
Both classes are scheduled to at
tend the A&M-Baylor football
game in Kyle field at 2 p.m. Sat
urday.
History Confab
Draws Ag Prof
Dr. Herbert H. Lang, associate
professor in the Department of
History and Government, partici
pated in a recent conference on
history of western America in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The historian presented a paper
in the area of his special field of
research on the history of urani
um mining in the United States.
His paper was entitled “Uranium
Mining and the AEG: The Birth
Pangs of a New Industry.”
Douglas Robinson, A&M graduate student,
examines a tree-dwelling frog of a species
he discovered in the Mexican tropics. The
Los Tuxtlas region of Mexico is surving as
New Frog Species
Robinson’s long-term project. This region
appears to have traveled its owne private
evolutionary route.